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InterPortlet Communication Made Easy with IPC Story Board in the Portal Pack Plug-ins for NetBeans

In my last blog, I had mentioned about the IPC Story Board which is an upcoming feature in the next version of the Portal Pack. In brief IPC Story Board in Portal Pack will help developers to implement Inter Portlet Communication/Eventing in their portlets in a visual manner. More importantly it also generates most of the eventing related code automatically for you. In my last demo I had also linked to a screen cast which gives an idea how this IPC Story Board will work in future. But now there is a new flash demo available which shows a full functional IPC Story Board in action. This feature will be supported in the next version of the Portal Pack for NetBeans 5.5/5.5.1. The new binaries are not yet available on the Portal Pack project site, but those will be available very soon. In this flash demo I have created a simple shopping cart portlet application using Portal Pack + NetBeans 5.5 with IPC Story Board support. The application developed using IPC Story Board can be deployed/run on Open Portal Portlet Container / Sun Java System Portal Server 7.x . The future version of the IPC Story Board will also be supporting JSR-286 portlet eventing.

If you are interested to see the fully functional IPC Story Board in action then check this screencast.

Let me know if you have any suggestions & feedbacks or you want to see any new features in the Portal Pack.